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Supercluster of Galaxies 
We Live
in a Supercluster of Galaxies with a Hawaiian Name
From childhood I’ve loved astronomy. Night after night I would
gaze at the stars, clueless about a Creator, but longing for something more.
I yearned for something bigger than myself.
One night I discovered the great galaxy of Andromeda, with its
trillion stars, 2.5 million light years away. I was filled with awe.
I longed to go there and explore its wonders, and lose myself in
something greater than I was.
My wonder was trumped by an unbearable sense of loneliness and
separation.
I wanted to worship, but I didn’t know who. I wept because I
felt so incredibly small.
Unknown to me, God was using the wonders of the universe to draw
me to Himself.
As Romans 1 says, I was
seeing in what He had made “his invisible
attributes, his eternal power and divine nature.”
One night several years
later, I opened a Bible and saw these words for the first time: “In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth.”
And then I read verse 14, the
greatest understatement ever: “He made
the stars also.”
A universe one hundred billion light years across, containing
countless trillions of stars, and the Bible makes them sound like a casual
add-on!
The celestial heavens declare God's glory (Psalm
19).
There is so much we don't know, but astronomers are always
discovering something new for which God deserves the credit.
Here's one of the latest.
Did you know that you live in a place, a super cluster of
galaxies, named Laniakea?
Learn more over on the Huffington Post.
Randy Alcorn (@randyalcorn)
is the author of fifty-some booksand the founder and director of Eternal Perspective
Ministries.
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